Stick it in a folder with "background01.jpg" and "background.02.jpg." Run it. Test it. Turn it into an app. Put a *different* background01.jpg and background02.jpg in the MacOS directory. Run it again. It will keep the whatever image was displaying in the patch when you turn it into an app even if you put a different one in the MacOS directory. ie. If background01.jpg was displayed in the patch when it is turned into an app, you can’t replace background01.jpg. It is cached so to speak.

Sasha Harris-Cronin wrote:
> That is extremely clumsy. It was also not the case until max 4.5.
> Considering that the stated point of fpic is to allow easy access to
> external pictures, I consider it a bug.

Impossible to tell if you replied to my post or not, but I would call it
expected behaviour.
Imagine you don’t want to exchange it, and the application would load a
different picture, which happens to be in the searchpath but has the
same name…